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Viva la France at Last

Viva la France. Aside from eating French crepes, drinking French wine and engaging in haute couture, they recently began putting a finger on their French Muslim problem. I have nothing against decent, law-abiding Muslims. It’s just the rock throwing, bomb-carrying-anti-anything-that-is-not-them element that are the pain, and it is those who watch them in silence that are the other pains.

France, and the many other countries have been having trouble with them, have been treated like lotto winners in a five-star hotel. Yet they have returned the favor either by burning cars or blowing things and people up. Let’s face it. It’s not the way to ingratiate oneself to the natives.

So being sick of the problem and the smell of burning rubber, the French finally hunkered down and created a law prohibiting women from covering their faces in public. Although no religious group is named, people know who it is aimed towards, and even more so, the unruly masses begged for it.

Granted that only about 2,000 women out of the six million Muslim women residing there wear burqas, it at least makes a statement. At its most elementary level, it’s a safety issue because suicide bombers used to hide explosives under them as they strolled the streets and marketplaces during our war in Iraq. And if it happened then, it could happen again. Other than that, the French are using this as a starting point to say that they have had enough of the hooligans that they have welcomed to their country and have fed, clothed and placated as they watched France and the rest of the free world turn into a battle ground. And they are one of the few European countries brave enough to take a stand. But it is going to be a long legal battle and a long, hard road given how their Muslim population has expressed their sentiments in the past. In the end, merci to France and bon chance.

The French Muslims are just that — French. They have a legal right to be there due to France’s long and dirty history of invasion and colonization of their home countries in North Africa.

The riots had nothing to do with the veil law. The riots were about economic and education opportunities, as riots usually are.

You need to do some research before you publish opinions. You are clearly ignorant about France and its history. I recommend you start with the great film, “The Battle of Algiers” and then see what you think about North Africans and their rights.

Gail-Tzipporah Saunders

Gee, Tina, thanks for setting me straight. Whether or not they have a right to be there is beside the point. The French government has been pretty good to them and has given them plenty of money to live on to try and quell them. Regardless of one’s status, there is no reason for the mayhem, violence or looting or the burning of property.